Welcome

Dreamers Wanted

Working on websites can be daunting and even lonely at times. We are here as a community to help each other with ideas, solutions, and feedback. Whether you are just maintaining content or coding up a site, the Web Developer Network is a resource for you.

You can contribute!

Ways to Participate

Monthly Meetings

The Web Developer Network holds a monthly meeting that provides the opportunity for all university website stakeholders to get together, network, and learn about upcoming changes to the university Web Framework and CMS. The group also discusses upcoming web trends and share knowledge and best practices about maintaining websites.

Meeting agendas are often mailed out a day before the meeting. We also encourage topic inclusions and presentation suggestions using the suggestion form.

As part of his redesign efforts of all 30 or so Business & Finance websites, he uses Google Analytics (GA) to help better inform his clients about their websites. This presentation covers the different views and filters that he uses to clean his GA results of spam for more accurate data analysis.

Governance Board

The WDN Shared Governance Board administers and guides the development of the UNLedu Web Framework, Style Book, and public information management systems in an environment of respect, collaboration, and outreach. Their goal: to improve user experience, solicit user feedback, and encourage good stewardship of all university websites.

Board meetings are held on the first and third Tuesday every month, at 10am in the University Communications office. University staff participation at these board meetings is welcome.

UX Sub-committee

The UX (User Experience) Sub-committee of the Shared Governance Board is an open group that works together to form recommendations to the Shared Governance Board that will help improve the experience of visitors interacting with user interface of university websites and its public information systems.

The group welcomes individuals interested in learning more about UX and research.

Code Contributions

Our university's Web Framework is publicly available on GitHub. Improvements and new features are welcomed through submitted pull requests. If you have any questions about how to implement a feature or change, please hop in our chat room.

If you are not familiar with Git, but still wish to contribute, the Framework documentation might be a good opportunity. You can add examples, fix errors, and improve content in our documentation.

Feature Request

If you do not have the time or resources to implement a feature yourself, please submit a feature request. You can also use the feature request form or the chat to let us know about bugs that you have discovered. We always welcome opportunities to improve the tools that we bring to you.